Werner Starke (lawyer)
Werner Starke (* around 1540 in Lübeck ; † June 2, 1584 ibid) was a German lawyer, secretary of the Hanseatic Office in Bergen and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Werner Starke studied law at the University of Rostock from 1561 . He completed his studies with a doctorate.
Evidently he worked from 1568 as secretary of the Hanseatic Office in Bergen (Norway) on the Bryggen .
During a stay in Lübeck in 1574, he authorized the former Lübeck council secretary Christoph Messerschmidt as well as his brother-in-law to represent him in a lawsuit against Elsabe Knockert, the sister of Lübeck council secretary Franciscus Knockert , for breach of the promise of marriage .
In 1577 he quit his job for the mountain drivers from Lübeck, but stayed in Bergen until his successor Werner Schellenberg arrived .
At the end of 1579 he married Gertrud Dalemann in Lübeck and had a daughter with her.
On May 2, 1584 he was appointed third council secretary (registrar) in Lübeck, but died a month later.
literature
- Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851, in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), pp. 145/146
- Friedrich Bruns : The secretaries of the German office in Bergen , in: Det Hanseatiske Museums Skriften , Volume 13, Bergen 1939, pp. 56–58
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strong, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, secretary of the Hansekontor in Bergen and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1540 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1584 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |